Is a psychopath’s brain different? Yes. There are differences in the areas that deal with empathy and guilt, and the areas that deal with fear and anxiety. What exactly is a psychopath? “Psychopath” is not actually a clinical diagnosis. The real condition is antisocial personality disorder (ASPD) and a psychopath would be on the far […]
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I learned this today. The gambler’s fallacy is the belief that a random event is more or less likely to happen based on the outcome of a previous event. For example, if a coin is flipped ten times and it comes up heads ten times, the gambler will believe that heads is less likely on
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I learned this today. Maslow’s hierarchy of needs is a universal classification system which has the most important needs at the bottom and then the following needs in an ascending order of importance. Maslow was an American psychologist. He worked from the early 1930s until his death in 1970. He published his hierarchy of needs
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I learned this today. Floor indicators were added to elevators in the 1950s in order to distract people while they waited. The actual waiting time wasn’t as bad as the perceived waiting time. This was discovered thanks to queuing theory. Queuing theory was invented by Agner Krarup Erlang in 1909. He was working for the
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